Ive been a member here for a while. Mostly just a lurking searcher gaining knowledge. My original project was sold off to help with the down payment of our new house. So here is a little background on how this little jewel (in my eyes anyway) came in to my hands. I like a lot of different type of cars. My latest O/T car took me over a year and half to finish. All the dents and dings were taken out and my buddy put a fresh pearl clear coat on it. After that I raised the horsepower from 235, to 407hp/427tq. ( I do have a dyno-sheet for the naysayers, but I would like to keep this thread on topic and go off into O/T vehicle bashing tyraid.) So coming home from a car show one night, some hillbilly in a jacked jeep wrangler decides to shoot across 3 lanes of the feeder road and cut me off. After swerving a bit, I hit the curve and the car goes over 2.5 times and ends up on the roof. I only had about 1000 miles of fun with it, but hey I aint dead. <O</O So about a month after insurance money comes in, the crumpled beer can is bought back, paid off the little I owed on it, stripped it, sold the parts and broke almost even on what I paid and had put into the car. Since the accident I have been searching ebay and CL almost everyday, for a month. One day I see the listing for my truck, call the owner, he cancels the auction and we got a deal. My dad was coming to ffice:smarttags" /><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com</st1:City>Houston the next week, so the owner brought it to <st1:City w:st="on"><ST1lace w:st="on">Detroit</ST1lace></st1:City> and my dad loaded it up for me and brought it down. Needless to say I looked at this picture more than once a day. <O</O<O</O <OA couple pics </O <O </O</O <O</O So as for the hodge podge it is a mixture of a few different vehicles <O</O It is a steel 39 dodge cab, channeled 6 inches, and chopped 4 inches It has a handmade bed, 40 ford rear fenders, 37 ford pick up front fenders, a 35 chevy grille. It is sitting on a s10 chassis with a 3/4 drop. The motor is a 63 corvette 327 with triple deuces and a th350 trans. <O</O <O</O Now the fun begins. I was having a fuel problem and it was stalling out when put in gear. I imagine part of this is do the difference in sea level. I could see the carbs were leaking so first order of business was to rebuild them. <O</O Not to bad for my first time rebuilding a carb, found all the info I needed right here. <O</O Pulled the leaking headers and found another set here. <O</O I decide to degrease the block and paint started coming off, so next thing I know bye bye accessories por 15 kit is on the way. <O</O Future plans include replacing the front fiberglass fenders with some metal ones. Replace the grill with a 35-37 ford truck grill. I think the rear fenders will have to stay because steel 40 ford fenders are not cheap. The rear bumper will also be going for a hand made roll pan. Im going for a mid 60s custom/show car theme. Appropriate white interior and a dark yellow/gold exterior. The body work needs some cleaning up so I guess I need to start practicing my leading and welding.
Sweet looking truck...glad you abandoned the "rice burner" world. Great pile of classic parts working well together is hard to beat.
Wow nice looking truck.Was it previously yours and you found it again? Very nice looking truck either way!!
Having a soft spot for Mopars myself, this is a seriously good looking fully fendered truck. It is hard to get a fat fendered, full fendered truck right-your truck has great proportions and stance. Top truck!!
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